In the past I tried using Ubuntu 14.04.5 desktop 64 bit, but I was having issues getting the amd software and drivers to install.
Ubuntu 15.05 has always been my "go to" OS for ethereum mining because of the ease of installing the drivers and ethminer. Although, its no longer supported by Ubuntu. (so sad)
Ubuntu 16.04, the last I saw was that Ubuntu was not allowing FGLRX-UPDATES to be installed. Kinda need that for my R9 295X2 cards. Today I looked for a guide and saw some mumble jumble of how to mine with 16.04 but good gawd, what a load of work. I gave up and went back to installing on 15.04.
HOWEVER: FGLRX-UPDATES installed easily as usual, but when I tried to install cpp-ethereum I got an error. I first added the repositories:
Code:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ethereum/ethereum-qt
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ethereum/ethereum
sudo apt-get update
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ethereum/ethereum
sudo apt-get update
Then I typed:
Code:
sudo apt-get install cpp-ethereum
Which resulted in the error:
Code:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
cpp-ethereum : Depends: alethzero but it is not going to be installed
Depends: mix-ide but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
cpp-ethereum : Depends: alethzero but it is not going to be installed
Depends: mix-ide but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Allrighty then .... I tried to install alethzero, that had unmet dependenciy of libqt5webengine5, I tried to install libqt5webengine5 and wound up saying the package is missing, obsoleted etc .... and has no instalation candidate.
WTF! .... I --NEVER-- had any issues before... and I like using ethminer ....
Did something just break with the fork? or what is going on? How do I install ethminer now?
Thanks
